- The role of the product owner is to build…and prioritize the backlog.…They own it.…They are the decision maker on what gets built by the team.…This is a huge responsibility that…many product owners simply cannot take on…all of what it entails.…So they rely on the strong support of BAs.…The BA role provides a lot of skills that…many product owners need to perform in their role.…The BA brings analysis skills at a release…and feature level, and they bring collaboration…and facilitation skills that help the team…deliver the product owner's vision.…

The agile BA role is to make decision making…easy for the product owner.…The BA maximizes the efficiency and effectiveness…of the product owner by analyzing, organizing…and facilitating the key factors needed…for the product owner to engage and make decisions.…The product owner and the BA become…the value managers of the product.…As value managers, they have three main goals.…First, they work together to understand the customers,…customer journeys, the market and the various aspects…

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7/26/2017

Customer needs change every day. We need our products to keep up. Take an agile approach to requirements analysis: Learn the mindset and techniques necessary to discover requirements for an agile project and succeed in the business analyst (BA) role. Angela Wick reviews the 12 agile principles from a BA's perspective, introduces backlog management techniques, and discusses techniques such as product decomposition, user stories and story maps, which help BAs deliver products that truly delight customers. Plus, find out what concepts such as "minimum viable product" and "value stream" mean to people in the BA role.

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